Randomized, double-blind trial of an antibiotic-lock technique for prevention of gram-positive central venous catheter-related infection in neutropenic patients with cancer

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2200-2204

  Carratalà, Jordi ^a,b   Niubó, Jordi ^a   Fernández Sevilla, Alberto ^a   Juvé, Eulalia ^a   Castellsagué, Xavier ^a   Berlanga, Juan ^a   Liñares, Josefina ^a   Gudiol, Francesc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD DISEASE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0032825649     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.9.2200     Document Type: Article

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